“A gente‟ era feliz e não sabia... é possível sair da zona de conforto de maneira abrupta e ainda dar lugar a um novo processo de construção didática?

Abstract

The present research sought to investigate the effects of the pandemic on the educational world, studying several aspects, especially the professional issue – teacher mediator – and the teaching-learning process as a whole. The study was based on interviews with teachers working in public and private schools, in Basic Education in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in classes from the fourth to the sixth grade. The study brings a reflection of the pre-pandemic educational context, to address, comparatively, the post-pandemic, understanding how the experience of a complicated period in social, emotional, personal and professional issues in all areas of Brazilian society took place. The field research was based on some fundamental questions: What is the role of the teacher in the post-pandemic period, in the face of the many adversities that are present and need to be conducted? Is this teacher, who has to deal with great challenges, prepared physically and emotionally after so much turbulence? After the pandemic, what is the main gain for the educational world? What's more, at what points were social differences most affected and accentuated? Do we need to think about the construction of a new didactics? In the midst of so many fears, the research sought to provide educators with moments of reflection on the need to build new bridges that lead to the construction of a liberating education, capable of overcoming the limits imposed. The results obtained in the research allow us to perceive that initial and continuing education become indispensable for the life and education of the new generations. The study generated, as an educational product, a book with an interactive memoir, which not only tells a story, but also engages and connects readers in innovative and meaningful ways.